NO sooner had Captain Peter Burkill and Senior First Officer John Coward landed British Airways flight BA038 at Heathrow than pound signs began to flash like cabin lights.

NO sooner had Captain Peter Burkill and Senior First Officer John Coward landed British Airways flight BA038 at Heathrow than pound signs began to flash like cabin lights.

One red-topped Sunday publication printed a picture of Burkill in his younger day, semi-naked and smeared with chocolate by female cabin staff on an overnight stop abroad - presumably this was traded in by a female participant at this knees-up.

Meanwhile, his second wife, Maria, was in gushing mode as she told us there had been an "instant attraction" between her and the dashing Burkill on a Bahrain flight.